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classes of carriages : four-in-hands, tandems, dog- 

 carts, spike teams, etc. Every vehicle is cov- 

 ered or decorated with flowers, and some of the 

 exhibits, especially of the schools, are very 

 beautiful. The High School in particular has 

 a genius on its staff, who has remarkable gifts 

 in this direction, and the creation this year was 

 marvellous. Neighboring towns all enter char- 

 acteristic floats. Kedondo, famous for its fish- 

 ing, has a sea serpent suggestive of the tales 

 that are manufactured in summer; Venice, a 

 gondola, and even Stanford is represented by 

 the alumni in a float. 



The pageant, outside of its details, is remark- 

 able for the quantity of flowers used; tens of 

 thousands of the rarest roses, thousands of 

 carnations, and an endless display of other 

 flowers. No artificial flowers are seen in this 

 procession, nearly two miles in length, march- 

 ing slowly through double lines of two hundred 

 thousand spectators. 



The procession starts at eleven and winds its 

 way to the park where the games begin at one 

 o'clock. There are preliminary " stunts " to be 

 carried on, as push ball, polo, or football played 

 on horseback with a ball seven feet high, of pig 

 skin, and weighing five hundred pounds. It took 

 two men a whole day to blow up the ball with 

 a motor-car pump, and when completely filled 

 it was a perfect sphere about seven feet each 



